Comment 6 for bug 848831

On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 1:22 AM, Benji York <email address hidden> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 4:27 PM, Robert Collins
> <email address hidden> wrote:
>> Our platform is Python on Ubuntu, not virtualenv on python on Ubuntu,
>> so this not working is a pretty big deal, not an expected situation to
>> avoid.
>
> To be sure I'm being clear: I'm talking about development not usage.
>
> Unfortunately given the limitations of Python's module system I don't
> know of a way to avoid conflicts with system-installed packages like
> this bug represents (or not, see below).
>
> Addressing the system Python problem was the intent of Gary's work on
> buildout 1.5.  Unfortunately that work hasn't found the acceptance we
> had hoped for and is being removed in buildout 2.0.

Yup, I'm talking development too - we deploy LP as we develop it
though (for a variety of good reasons but mainly to avoid last minute
surprises). So things that are worrying in dev... are worrying in prod
:)

For instance, we can't guarantee that some other packaged bit of
software won't drag lazr.uri in on a prod server. If that would break
our other deployed code, that would be a nasty surprise!

-Rob